For the next 8 school weeks, we will be adding 36 minutes to each day. Since we have had an abundance of snow days, the state DOE has let schools get creative with how to make up the school days. They are allowing us to "bank time", which means we can add time to the day and use the extra time as banked time to make up for the days we have missed. 36 minutes only adds 6 minutes to each period, but 6 minutes added to a class feel more like 6 days. Thankfully today was a black day, so my load was lighter than usual, and I have an extra long prep, but having the end of the day hit at 2:56 after 10 years of 2:20 is a little brutal. In a cruel joke, today was the first Monday of the month, meaning we had a faculty meeting right after school. Yeah, that didn't make the day shorter.
My blended class met today, and I handed out their project requirements for Slaughter-House Five then discussed it. I laid into them a too. They are extremely lazy, and I let them know that if they didn't start working harder, then this class would cease to be blended and they would meet every single day like the regular classes. All their privileges of a blended class would be revoked and they would have to sit in class, in longer classes at that, instead of meeting virtually. They got quiet really quickly because most of them know me well enough that they know I'm dead serious. As of 10:30 tonight, my school inbox is flooded with notifications for assignments coming in. I'm hoping this is the last time I have to have this talk with them.
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